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Item Details
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THE CHAMELEON POET
A LIFE OF GEORGE BARKER |
| By: |
Robert Fraser |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£16.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0712691715 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780712691710 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
5 November, 2002 |
| Pages: |
592 |
| Description: |
This biography of poet George Barker offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and entertaining man, and a broad cultural landscape. |
| Synopsis: |
Eliot wrote of his 'genius'. Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women. War trapped him in Japan. In America he conducted one of the most celebrated love affairs of the century. He fathered fifteen children in several countries, three during one battle-torn summer. By the 1950s he was the toast of Soho. George Barker was Catholic and bohemian, frank and elusive, tender and boisterous. In Eliot's phrase, he was 'a most peculiar fellow'. Robert Fraser's biography offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and irresistibly entertaining man, and a broad cultural landscape. Around the central figure cluster painters like Francis Bacon, writers such as Elizabeth Smart and the lugubrious humorist Jeffrey Bernard. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pimlico |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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